Agents of Orthodoxy: Honor, Status, and the Inquisition in Colonial Pernambuco, Brazil

Wadsworth, James E.

ISBN 10: 0742554465 / ISBN 13: 9780742554467

Published by Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, 2016

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288 pages. 9.00x9.00x6.00 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Agents of Orthodoxy: Honor, Status, and the Inquisition in Colonial Pernambuco, Brazil
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0742554465
• ISBN 13: 9780742554467
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.41 kilograms

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Synopsis

The Portuguese Inquisition is often portrayed as a tyrannical institution that imposed itself on an impotent society. Drawing on extensive archival research, the book challenges this myth by arguing that the Inquisition was integral to colonial society, reinforcing European social and religious values that were recreated in colonial Brazil.

About the Author

James E. Wadsworth is Professor of History at Stonehill College, USA. He is the author of Agents of Orthodoxy: Honor, Status and the Inquisition in Colonial Pernambuco Brazil (2007), In Defence of the Faith: Joaquim Marques de Araújo, A Brazilian Comissário in the Age of Inquisitional Decline (2013), Columbus and His First Voyage: A History in Documents (2016), and The World of Credit in Colonial Massachusetts: James Richards and His Day Book, 1692-1711 (2017).